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Northeast Research Station Watertown, South Dakota Annual Progress Report, 1967, Agricultural Experiment Station, Agronomy Department

Agricultural Experiment Station and Research Farm Annual Reports

This is the 1967 annual progress report for the Northeast Research Station in Watertown, South Dakota. This report is issued by the South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station and the South Dakota State University. This report includes information on the 1967 crop season, fertility and cultural practice experiments, corn and sorgham forage studies, small grain trials, corn performance trials, grain sorghum and soybeans, wheat and flax strain test, weed research, crop diseases, and insect control.

Strongly Acid Soil Must Be Limed For Corn, Harold Miller

Agronomy Notes

The necessity of liming strongly acid soils that will be planted in corn is well illustrated in a demonstration conducted by Harold Vaught, Area Extension Agent in Adair County.

A field that was well fertilized with nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium produced low corn yields in 1966. Analysis of a soil sample from the field showed that it was strongly acid soil. (Similar conditions have been reported by many farmers throughout the state in recent years.) Since this field was to be planted in corn again in 1967, a liming demonstration was planned .

Breeding Tobacco Varieties, Paul D. Legg

Agronomy Notes

The principal objectives in breeding tobacco are yield, field and handling characteristics, disease resistance, and quality. Of these objectives, major emphasis has been placed on breeding disease-resistant varieties. Resistant varieties have provided one of the most effective means of combating many of the pathogens that attack the tobacco plant. However, the transfer of genes for disease resistance into susceptible varieties has been accompanied in many cases by other characteristics which are undesirable. It is often a difficult task to combine acceptable type, yield, and quality with desired factors for disease resistance into a single variety.

Changes In Tennessee Agriculture By Counties 1954-1964, Larry M. Boone, Curtis F. Lard, University Of Tennessee Agricultural Experiment Station

Bulletins

No abstract provided.

Christmas Greetings 1967, Jane Claire Dirks-Edmunds, Ray Edmunds

Jane Claire Dirks-Edmunds Documents

This Christmas letter from Jane Claire Dirks-Edmunds and her husband Ray Edmunds, sent to friends and family in 1967, shares experiences from their frequent travels during that year.

Southeast South Dakota Experiment Farm Annual Progress Report, 1967, Agricultural Experiment Station

Agricultural Experiment Station and Research Farm Annual Reports

This seventh annual report of the research program at the Southeast South Dakota Experiment Farm is presented herewith. The report has special significance for those engaged in agriculture and the agriculturally related businesses in the nine county area of southeast South Dakota, but it will be useful to many outside the area. The results shown are not necessarily complete nor conclusive. Interpretations given are tentative because additional data resulting from continuation of these experiments may result in conclusions different from those based on any one year.

South Central Research Farm Annual Progress Report, 1967, Agricultural Experiment Station, Plant Science Department

Agricultural Experiment Station and Research Farm Annual Reports

This is the December 1967. report for the Agricultural Experiment Station at the South Central Research Farm. This report includes weather data, small grain variety testing, specialty crop testing, sorghum testing, legume and grass testing, management, tillage and cultural practices, and crop disease control.

Conusmer Sentiment And Utah's Out Of State Visitor, Perry J. Brown, John D. Hunt

Forest Management Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

A New Species Of Shrew (Genus Cryptotis) From Jalisco, Mexico (Mammalia: Insectivora), Hugh H. Genoways, Jerry R. Choate

University of Nebraska State Museum: Mammalogy Papers

From July 6 to 11, 1966, vertebrates were collected on Volcan de Fuego, Jalisco, for the Museum of Natural History,the University of Kansas, by Hugh H. Genoways and Percy L. Clifton. On July 10, a shrew of the genus Cryptotis was obtained on a steep slope across the valley to the north of the active cone of the volcano. The specimen was caught in a steel trap placed in the tunnel of a pocket gopher; because the opening had not been covered after the trap was set, it could not be determined whether the shrew was using the tunnel as …

Agricultural Development In East Central Florida, East Central Florida Regional Planning Council Staff

City and Regional Planning -- Florida

AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT is one of fourteen reports in the East Central Florida Regional Planning Council's 1965 Research Series. Each report covers a separate aspect of the Region's development and includes the author's projections and recommendations. Thus the fourteen reports constitute a unified, detailed picture of the Region that will serve as a base for both general and special studies over the years to come. As soon as the studies were completed, the Council began the task of evaluating and coordinating the research material in order to evolve a long-range plan for sound development in the Region. The Council's policies and …

Fessisentis Necturorum Sp. N. (Acanthocephala: Fessisentidae), A Parasite Of The Gulf Coast Waterdog, Necturus Beyeri, Brent B. Nickol

Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology: Faculty and Staff Publications

Specimens of a previously undescribed species of the genus Fessisentis were taken from the Gulf Coast waterdog, Necturus beyeri beyeri, in southeastern Louisiana. This is the third species of the genus to be described and the first published record of Fessisentis from an amphibian. The new species as a shorter body, smaller proboscis hooks, and a proportionately larger proboscis than F. fessus. The species from Necturus has more longitudinal rows of proboscis hooks each with fewer hooks, relatively smaller male genitalia, and proportionately longer lemnisci than F. vancleavei.

Observations On The Reproductive Behavior Of The Black Bullhead (Ictalurus Melas), Charles R. Wallace

School of Biological Sciences: Faculty Publications

Two pairs of black bullheads, Ictalurus melas (Rafinesque), were observed spawning out of season in two 90-gal laboratory aquaria after the females had received injections of finely ground acetone-dried carp pituitaries. These fish had been collected in August 1966 and were maintained in the laboratory through the winter in a 75-gal aquarium at an approximate room temperature of 20°–25° C.

Synthetic And Complex Media For The Rapid Detection Of Fluorescence Of Phytopathogenic Pseudomonads: Effect Of The Carbon Source, Anne K. Vidaver

Department of Plant Pathology: Faculty Publications

Fluorescence is of diagnostic value for differentiating among species of aerobic pseudomonads (R. Y. Stanier, N. J. Palleroni, and M. Doudoroff, J. Gen. Microbiol. 43:159, 1966). The standard medium for detecting fluorescence is Medium B (E. 0. King, M. K. Ward, and D. E. Raney, J. Lab. Clin. Med. 44:301, 1954), which supports fluorescent pigment production of most pseudomonads tested (0. Jessen, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and other green fluorescent pseudomonads, A taxonomic study, Munksgaard, Copenhagen, 1965; R. Y. Stanier et al., J. Gen. Microbiol. 43:159, 1966). Minerals (J. V. King, J. J. R. Campbell, and B. A. Eagles, Can. J. …

Use Of Wild Species In Developing Varieties, Glenn B. Collins

Agronomy Notes

The familiar plant known as tobacco has the more technical name of Nicotiana tabacum L. It belongs to a family of plants called the Solanaceae or Nightshade family. This family includes many familiar species besides tobacco: tomato, potato, bitter sweet, horse-nettle, ground-cherry, jimsonweed, henbane, and petunia, to mention only a few. In addition to these more distant relatives of tobacco, there are approximately 65 Nicotiana species. Morphologically, the Nicotiana species are very diverse, ranging from those resembling tobacco to the extreme types that look more like cabbage. The species are widespread geographically, with a particularly large concentration in South and …

Marketing Burley Tobacco, Ira E. Massie

Agronomy Notes

When your tobacco has been stripped, sort it (on the farm) into its respective groups. Sort in daylight or under fluorescent lighting, never by yellow (muzda) electric or lantern light.

After the sticks of tobacco have been carefully sorted and checked, they should be packed on the truck in the following order: first, the sticks of the lowest quality, then the flyings, then the next quality, etc. Next load the high quality lugs. The leaf is then loaded, beginning with that of the highest quality and then in the order of quality to the lowest.

Kentucky Warbler (Vol. 43, No. 4), Kentucky Library Research Collections

Kentucky Warbler

No abstract provided.

Fertilizing No-Tillage Corn And Soybeans, George D. Corder

Agronomy Notes

Planting corn and soybeans in sod (commonly referred to as "no-tillage" planting) is increasing in parts of Kentucky, and interest in this practice in other parts of the state is growing.

One question is often asked: 'What is the best method of liming and fertilizing no-tillage corn and soybeans?"

Since no-tillage planting is a comparatively new practice, only a limited amount of research on methods of fertilization has been done. However, research designed to find out how well plants can recover phosphorus and potassium applied on the surface of the soil will be started by the Department of Agronomy at …

The Hancock Cotton Variety, University Of Tennessee Agricultural Experiment Station, P. E. Hoskinson

Bulletins

No abstract provided.

1963-66 Performance Of Cotton Varieties Harvested By Hand And Spindle-Picked, University Of Tennessee Agricultural Experiment Station, Charles R. Graves, P. E. Hoskinson, J. R. Overton, Tom Mccutchen

Bulletins

No abstract provided.

Whole Issue Nebraska Bird Review (October 1967) 35(4)

Nebraska Bird Review

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Book Reviews.................74

Notes .................77

Index of Volume XXXV .................78

Using Birdsfoot Trefoil In Kentucky Pastures, W. C. Templeton Jr., C. F. Buck, D. W. Wattenbarger

Agronomy Notes

Birdsfoot trefoil (Lotus corniculatus L.) is an excellent pasture legume in the Corn Belt and in northeast United states . It has usually been considered too poorly adapted to Kentucky to merit trial by the farmers. Observations and grazing results in Woodford county during the last 14 years, however, indicate that this view is no longer valid.

A grazing trial was established in 1954, with birdsfoot trefoil and Kentucky bluegrass as one of three mixtures used. Trefoil was seeded alone in the spring, and an excellent stand was obtained. Bluegrass was drilled in the established trefoil in September 1954. There …

A Biological And Chemical Study Of The Nansemond River, Virginia, Morris L. Brehmer, Samuel O. Haltiwanger, Williard I. Simmonds

Reports

No abstract provided.

Occurrence Of The Trematode Glypthelmins Pennsylvaniensis Cheng, 1961, In Chorus Frogs, Pseudacris Triseriata, In Colorado, John E. Ubelaker, Donald W. Duszynski, Donald L. Beaver

Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology: Faculty and Staff Publications

Glypthelmins pennsylvaniensis has been reported from Hyla crucifer Weid, in Pennsylvania (Cheng, 1961) and in Pseudacris nigrita (LeConte) in Georgia (Byrd and Maples, 1963). This report adds Pseudacris triseriata from Colorado.

Annotated Checklist Of Bats From South Dakota, J. Knox Jones Jr., Hugh H. Genoways

University of Nebraska State Museum: Mammalogy Papers

Excepting the generalized accounts of Over and Churchill (1945), no attempt has been made previously to summarize the distribution of bats in South Dakota. In 1960, 1961, and again in 1965, field parties from the Museum of Natural History of The University of Kansas collected mammals in that state. Bats obtained by these parties, together with those on deposit in other institutions and the few specimens earlier reported from South Dakota by other workers (see cited literature), form the basis of the present report. Eleven species are here treated; two of these are represented in the state by two subspecies. …

Migration Of The Army Cutworm, Chorizagrotis Auxiliaris (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae). I. Evidence For A Migration, Kenneth P. Pruess

Department of Entomology: Faculty Publications

Indirect evidence is presented to support the conclusion that the army cutworm, Chorizagrotis auxiliaris (Grote), migrates from the Great Plains to the Rocky Mountains during the spring and the same individuals return to the Plains in the fall. Spring activity occurs progressively later from east to west, the delay being greater than that caused by emergence but commensurate with flight potential of the moth. Flight is predominately from east to west and a constant turnover of moths occurs at all locations on the Plains. Seasonal occurrence in the mountains coincides with the period of inactivity on the Plains, during which …

Certified Seed Of Kenblue Kentucky Bluegrass Seed Available, Department Of Agronomy, College Of Agriculture, University Of Kentucky

Agronomy Notes

A limited quantity of certified seed of Kenblue, a new variety of Kentucky bluegrass, will be available this fall. Kenblue was developed last year and officially released July 31, 1967 by the University of Kentucky and the USDA-ARS.

Kenblue is more insect- and disease-resistant than any of the other named varieties of bluegrass . Its adaptability to Kentucky conditions is also much higher, because Kenblue was developed from seed taken from 12 farms in seven Central Kentucky counties where bluegrass is normally grown for seed purposes . In each case, fields from which the seed was taken had been in …

1967 Recommended Small Grains-Planting Dates, Varieties, And Description, V. C. Finkner, S. H. Phillips

Agronomy Notes

Wheat

Planting Dates - - - September 15 to October 20
Varieties - - - - - Benhur, Knox 62, Monon, Red Coat

Barley

Planting Dates - - - September 15 to October 20
Varieties - - -- - Barsoy, Datyon, Harrison, Kenbar, Will

Oats (Fall varieties)

Planting Dates - - - August 20 to October 1
Varieties - - - - - Dubois and Nor line

Barsoy-A New Winter Barley, V. C. Finkner, S. H. Phillips

Agronomy Notes

The early maturity of Barsoy winter barley will fill a gap in the maturity dates of the barley varieties presently recommended. Double cropping of small grain and wheat has grown to the extent that 30,000 to 40,000 acres in Kentucky grow two crops each year. This practice will continue to develop and become more important on grain farms. The early maturity characteristic of Barsoy will allow an earlier planting of soybeans than will other barley varieties.

An Investigation Of The Nutrition Of The Young Dairy Calf By Response Surface Techniques, University Of Tennessee Agricultural Experiment Station, P. T. Chandler, R. G. Cragle, D. A. Gardiner

Bulletins

No abstract provided.

Evaluation Of Two In Vitro Fermentation Methods For Estimating The Nutritive Value Of Mixed Rations For Beef Cattle, University Of Tennessee Agricultural Experiment Station, K. M. Barth, A. S. Mohammed

Bulletins

No abstract provided.